South Carolina edges Clemson ... in spring game attendance
The competition between South Carolina and Clemson continues — even in spring game attendance.
The Tigers announced a crowd of 50,000 for Saturday’s Orange and White Game. A few hours later, the South Carolina Twitter account posted that more than 51,000 were on hand at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday night for the Garnet & Black Spring Game.
“We don’t take that atmosphere for granted,” head coach Shane Beamer said. “We don’t take our fans for granted. Looking outside my office window, I tweeted a picture of the people tailgating three hours before kickoff. That is a lot of tailgaters than a lot of teams have at their spring game. I’m proud of our fans. They were awesome.”
The Gamecocks are coming off a 31-30 win over Clemson in the annual meeting between the two Palmetto State schools. It was the Gamecocks’ first win against the Tigers since 2013. With the previous week’s win over Tennessee, beating Clemson was the first time in school history USC had won back-to-back games against opponents ranked in The Associated Press Top 10.
Saturday was the second-straight year USC has hosted a night spring game.
South Carolina announced a crowd of 20,671 for last year’s game, although that number was debated by Beamer after that game.
“One billion percent,” he said. “I don’t know who said 20,000. There were more than 20,000 in there, I can promise you that.”
This story was originally published April 15, 2023 at 8:50 PM.
